This blog addresses the fatal flaw at the core of capitalism as a system of human psycho-socio-political-economic collective self-reproduction, a flaw which ultimately renders it a self-DIS-organizing, self-destroying system -- as is becoming increasingly evident. It also details the successor system to capitalism, the new system that represents the higher, positive way forward for humanity: Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, or EQUITISM.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

This new series -- “Karl Seldon on Karl Marx” -- is for the purpose of my
presenting to you key excerpts from Karl Seldon’s discourses, among we of F.E.D., on the topic of the work of
Karl Marx.This series begins -- in this
Part 1
-- with a general statement on the F.E.D.
consensus regarding Marx’s theory overall.

[Seldon:]“The
point, with regard to Marx’s work, is not
to ‘dogmatize’ it, or to ‘catechismize’ it -- as is the wont of the purveyors
of “pure-state-bureaucratic” [“Leninist”, Trotskyist”, “Stalinist”, “Maoist”,
“Castoist”, “IList”, “UNist”, etc., ad nauseam] 'proto-state-capitalism',
who hope to make of their twisted ideology, which they [flagrantly and falsely]
claim to be Marx’s, a kind of secular religion that will secure their
totalitarian, Orwellian, mass-murderist dictatorship, and its perverted
“perks”, for all futurity.Those
purveyors degenerated
Marx’s theory
into a new ideology,
to cover-up their new, bloody pathway to capitalism, via their new variant of
['proto-state-capitalist'] “primitive accumulation”.”

“The point, with regard to Marx’s work, is to continue it, to extend it, including by continually
immanently critiquing its own internal tendencies toward ‘re-ideologification’ -- to
take up that work again where that work left off, with Marx’s untimely death,
and with Engels’s insufficient efforts to edit the manuscripts that Marx left
behind.”

“This means to advance,
once again, Marx’s work, in the several crucial loci which Marx left most
incomplete and most unclarified, e.g., in particular --

(1) The nature and causation of capitalist crisis, in
relation to Marx’s “Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall”;

(2) The detailed, necessary nature of the higher successor
system to the capitalist system, and, especially, of the new prevailing “social
relation of production” at the heart of that successor system -- the nature of
the association of “the associated producers”; the nature of a ‘producers’
democracy’, and;

(3) The nature of the Marxian dialectic in general, of the
systematic and historical dialectic of capitalism in particular, of the
dialectic of human history as a whole, and of the Marxian dialectic of Nature
as a whole.”

“Above all, this means recognizing the nature of Marxian
theory itself, namely, as a fundamental theory within human social science as a
whole, in contrast to which the various and pathetic mysticisms and idealisms
of capitalist ideology,
masquerading as social science,
pale in comparison.Marxian theory
represents the most comprehensive scientific theory of human-social
evolution, and of human-social ‘meta-evolution’ [i.e., of social relations of production
“revolution”, driven by the growth of the social forces of production across
critical thresholds], so far achieved by Terran humanity.”

“But, as such, as a scientifictheory, its hypotheses must be grasped as susceptible to
falsification by contravening empiricalevidence, and even as seeking such falsification, as a means to continually guard against ‘re-ideologification’, and as a means to
continually improve those hypotheses.”

FYI:Much of the work
of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators, including work by “yours truly”, is
available, for your
free-of-charge download, via --